Problem 1951. Better Index Number

Created by Shaun VanWeelden

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Dimitris Kaliakmanis on 20 Oct 2013

this solution fails for max_n equal to any power of 10.

Shaun VanWeelden on 24 Oct 2013

I have updated the test suite to test for when n = 10 and max_n = 100 and tried to rescore all of them so far.

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